Word: particularities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...approaches that liber mirabilis, Cardinal Newman's "Arians of the Fourth Century." One of the easy generalisations which he has avoided is that of Christianity as a withdrawal from the politics of the actual world, a starry pre-occupation with the absolute which can find no channel into the particular. This is just the Platonic Christianity against which Aquinas waged so masterful a struggle; it is the Christianity which, in the phrase of Mr. G. K. Chesterton, regards the body as a kind of "negligible napkin", and its concerns as sordid and irrelevant. It is not Dr. Niebuhr's Christianity...
...intelligent man will deny the intrinsic value to psychologists and to university administrators of some such questionnaire as that released to undergraduates last evening. The knowledge which it seeks would be of great importance to any civilized society. It is of particular importance to a society, such as the American, which regards ignorance of sex problems as a national virtue and asset...
...appears on the surface that this particular questionnaire is both sober and scientific, and that its authors have had expert advice in handling the material. That is as it should be. But there is, beyond this, much that is alarming. Even in competent and trustworthy hands, a matter of this sort is, to put it mildly, dynamite. The statistics are likely to be incomplete and therefore liable to misconstruction. If they are released to the press, one can scarcely conjecture what the effect will...
...changed now. By their stupid foreign policy the Germans have ruined any chance they might have had of preventing the formation of an Italian bloc, for if Germany opposes anything it is simply as a matter of principle, supported by the rest of the European powers. France in particular has been so completely alienated that Mussolini no longer need have any fears of a Franco-German rapprochement. He is thus able to proceed with his plans and France, far from making difficulties, tries instead to assure their success by persuading her Balkan allies not to raise any objections. There...
...tendency toward exclusiveness, according to the Yale News, is done "in a subtle, tactful manner by specifically withholding from members of other Colleges" invitations to lectures, recitals, and other functions in any one particular College...